God of the Oppressed

James H. Cone

Seabury Press, 1975 - Political Science - 280 pages

In his reflections on God, Jesus, suffering, and liberation, James H. Cone relates the gospel message to the experience of the black community. But a wider theme of the book is the role that social and historical context plays in framing the questions we address to God as well as the mode of the answers provided.

Contents

• II: 16
• Jesus Christ: 25
• Feuerbach Marx and the Sociology: 39
• of Knowledge: 52
• IV: 62
• V: 84
• Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?: 108
• VIN The Meaning of Liberation: 138
• Divine Liberation and Black Suffering: 163
• Suffering in the Black Religious: 183
• Liberation and the Christian Ethic: 195
• Toward a Black Ethic of Liberation: 206
• Ethics Violence and Jesus Christ: 217
• Liberation and Reconciliation: 226
• The Subjective Reality: 233
• Notes: 247
• Index: 277

About the author

James Hal Cone was born in Fordyce, Arkansas on August 5, 1938. He received a bachelor of divinity degree from Garrett Theological Seminary and a master's degree and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He became a central figure in the development of black liberation theology in the 1960s and 1970s. He spoke about racial inequalities that persisted in the form of economic injustice, mass incarceration, and police shootings. He joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in 1969 and was appointed to the distinguished Charles A. Biggs chair of systematic theology in 1977. He wrote several books including Black Theology and Black Power, A Black Theology of Liberation, Crosscurrents, and The Cross and the Lynching Tree, which received the Grawemeyer Award in Religion in 2018. He died on April 28, 2018 at the age of 79.

Bibliographic information

• Title: God of the Oppressed
• Author: James H. Cone
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Seabury Press, 1975
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jul 9, 2009
• ISBN: 0816426074, 9780816426072
• Length: 280 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies